Well, I’m not opposed to the leaks to be honest. Knowing is better than not knowing. Perhaps more young folks will be motivated to reform the political parties now that they have both seem to have reached bottom.

And the fact that our party which we were so hopeful had been salvaged beginning in 2008, is very much part of this horrid mess…and the idea that some who we had such high hopes for, have become embroiled in this mess as active participants and endorsers of the very foul okey doke…not only further disheartens, discomfits and jades me, but completely breaks my heart…

I was so sure we were so past the corrupt way of the past…I was so sure we were on a new path to a better, more selfless and more honorable politics…

I was so sure we were so above it all, and so much better than this sort of cheap, dubious, manipulative and dishonest politics and democracy…

Incredibly disappointing to say the least..

And if we turn a blind eye and pretend not to notice…or pretend that our side’s version of the same dubious and corrupt politics is somehow forgivable or ‘better’ – even as we act all offended by the other side…we are not just hypocrites, but dishonest …

The former secretary of state and four-star Army general who has been in the national spotlight since he was Ronald Reagan’s national security advisor let loose on Hillary Clinton (“greedy, not transformational”), her husband Bill (still “dicking bimbos”), and Donald Trump (a “national disgrace”).
The frank, biting version of Powell made public is thanks to private emails that appeared on dcleaks.com, a mysterious repository for hacked information suspected to be of Russian origin. Powell’s office confirmed to The New York Times that the emails were genuine.

Twitter was loving the Colin Powell emails today. He seems to have made the same observations about the Clintons and Trump that a good many others have but he has first hand knowledge (except about the bimbos).

FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE Colin Powell attempted to discourage Hillary Clinton and her team from using him as a scapegoat for her private email server problems, according to newly leaked emails from Powell’s Gmail account.

“Sad thing,” Powell wrote to one confidant, “HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me to it.”

“I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton’s [sic] party to get their attention. She keeps tripping into these ‘character’ minefields,” Powell lamented. He noted that he had tried to settle the matter by meeting with Clinton aide Cheryl Mills in August.

Powell’s private messages were leaked by DCLeaks.com, an anonymously managed website that shares hacked emails from U.S. military and political figures. DCLeaks has a relationship with Guccifer 2.0, a hacker that many allege to have ties with Russian intelligence. DCLeaks provided access to Powell’s emails to a number of reporters on Tuesday.

The emails show Powell regularly corresponding with reporters and friends about the Clinton email server scandal, explaining that his situation was different. When Powell arrived at the State Department, the information technology system was badly dated, he argued. And unlike Clinton, Powell never set up a private server. Instead, he used his personal AOL account, on a server maintained by AOL, and used a government computer for classified communications.

This momentary Kumbayah rallied only in defeat of their previously good friend Trump – or more honestly, to undeservedly propel Hillary into the Oval office, will all quickly begin to unravel when the ‘honest’ conversations and correspondence of other players are revealed in time…

And soon the brag books (many looking to sell movie rights too – to further line their pockets at the expense of our democracy à la Mark Halperin and John Heilemann) will start dropping -after the elections and from early next year…books from the various chest-beating sources including ‘journalists’ who have all been in on the okey-dokey …the deceit and manipulation of the electorate, and the continued cultivating of folks to advance personal ambitions and self-interests…

“…Former secretary of State and retired four-star general Colin Powell called Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “a national disgrace” and “international pariah,” and said “Hillary’s mafia” was trying to drag him into Clinton’s email scandal in personal emails that were leaked by hackers, according to online news organizations BuzzFeed and The Daily Caller.

Powell made the remarks about Trump in a June 17, 2016, email to Emily Miller, a journalist who once worked under Powell as a deputy press secretary at the State Department…”

They’re not really as respectable or honorable as folks like to project upon them. They are all as insecure, back-biting and petty as hell…

Even more so, they know that the mafia construct so many regular folks speak of, but are immediately shut down and idea pooh-poohed…these political mafia groups consisting of the kingmakers, the spin-masters and the flunkies – including those controlling and working on behalf of the Clintons, really do exist…even if in formal interviews principles like Colin Powell act all respectable and upright, roll their eyes at the suggestion of controlling powers and interests…and feign ignorance about it all..

A Powell spokeswoman confirmed to The Washington Post that the emails are Powell’s.

“We have confirmed that the general has been hacked and that these are his emails,” spokeswoman Peggy Cifrino said. “We have no other comment at this time.”

“They are going to dick up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin’ record rules,” he wrote. “I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine. … Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”

Y’all, this pain started in my husband’s lower back. He had been working cattle and came in and asked if I had any Tylenol. I asked did you hurt your back working those cows and he said no. Then during the night, the pain moved to his right side and he started coughing up blood yesterday morning. By the time we got to the hospital the pain was horrible. Dr ordered X-ray and found no pneumonia so they did a cat scan and found the blood clots. When the Dr told us what was happening. I started crying. I didn’t want to scare or make things worse for my husband but I fell apart. Blood clot in both lungs? OMG! But God is good and merciful.

Thank you everyone for your prayers. Dr has released my husband to go home. He said most of the clot is gone but a little is still there but since has no fever, infection or breathing problems he can go home. He still has pain on the right side and has to take Apixaban twice daily for 6 to 9 months and then it’ll be reduced to 1 tablet daily. He’s still coughing but not coughing up blood anymore. Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers, kind words and well wishes. God is good!

A smiling green man-frog doesn’t initially come off as sinister, and the origins of Pepe the Frog were pretty innocuous. But back in May, Olivia Nuzzi explained how this cartoon image had been appropriated by what we now call the “alt-right,” or white supremacists.

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In writing about this, James Fallows says:

I’m not going to share the Pepe variants I keep getting in the mail, but they include:

Pepe as a sly smiling gas-chamber operator, inviting Jews to take a “shower”; Pepe working the crematoria, after the gas chambers have done their job; Pepe at the glorious new southern Wall, grinning at the plight of Mexicans trapped on the other side; Pepe as an Orthodox Jew, smirking (because of the “inside job”) as the World Trade Centers come down 15 years ago; Pepe with a lynch mob.

I am so proud to be one of the Deplorables #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/IFD1hfC60w

— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) September 10, 2016

Donald Trump Jr. liked it so much that he posted it on his Instagram account.

Both of them express their pride in being associated with a white supremacist symbol. But they aren’t the only ones. Back in October, when white supremacists first started linking Pepe with Trump, the image was tied to a video titled, “You can’t stump Trump.” The candidate himself got in on the act, tweeting the image and video to places like Breitbart and The Drudge Report.

Fallows says that all of this reminds him of the incident with the Trump campaign’s use of the Star of David. He’s right. But this one is even more sinister. Perhaps that’s because it seems to be flying under the radar a bit and is more reminiscent of a dogwhistle. The use of Pepe the Frog is designed to send a message to white supremacists: “We’re with you.” I don’t know of a better way of describing that than “deplorable.”

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